There is yet another update in the investigation into a security breach involving the Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) vendor Smartmatic. As of April 1, Smartmatic had acknowledged a data leak, but said it had dealt with the problem and fired the employee involved. Now we learn that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has…
Category: Government Sector
LockBit ransomware gang lurked in a U.S. gov network for months
Bill Toulas reports: A regional U.S. government agency compromised with LockBit ransomware had the threat actor in its network for at least five months before the payload was deployed, security researchers found. Logs retrieved from the compromised machines showed that two threat groups had compromised them and were engaged in reconnaissance and remote access operations….
Finland hit by cyberattack, airspace breach
Lexi Lonas reports: Finland was hit with cyberattacks and an airspace breach on Friday while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was speaking to the Finnish Parliament. The country’s Ministry of Defense tweeted earlier Friday its website was under attack and it would shutter until further notice. A few hours later, after resolving the issue, the department clarified that…
Ca: SLGA business partners should have figured out on their own that their data may have been stolen: minister
Geoff Leo reports on what sounds like an utterly unsatisfactory response by the government to questions as to why it didn’t directly notify those affected of a breach: The minister responsible for the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA) says the Crown corporation didn’t directly notify its business partners that their data may have been…
An Interview with AgainstTheWest
They are anonymous, but they are not Anonymous. Meet the individuals who are using their skills to take on the West’s enemies. Names can be misleading. When I first read about a group called “AgainstTheWest,” I assumed they were working against the west. But while threat actors from Russia, China, Belarus, and North Korea attack…
China accused of hacking Ukraine days before Russian invasion
Maxim Tucker reports: China staged a huge cyberattack on Ukraine’s military and nuclear facilities in the build-up to Russia’s invasion, according to intelligence memos obtained by The Times. More than 600 websites belonging to the defence ministry in Kyiv and other institutions suffered thousands of hacking attempts which were co-ordinated by the Chinese government, according to…